Sony is wrestling with the security breach that has seen the root key for the PlayStation 3 published, and while that alone didn’t equal piracy a new screenshot that is making the rounds does indeed show that this now is possible.

The video shows a pirated copy of Castlevania that is loaded on the internal hard drive and ready to play. The good news, if there is any, is that taking a PS3 disc and making an image that is downloadable is quite complex. The lack of tools to handle this process at the moment is also a good thing, as apparently most of this has to be done by hand. This should give Sony some time to look at their options to deal with the issue.

So far, Sony has had little comment about the PS3 root key being published, other than to say that they were aware of the issue and they planned to patch the system to deal with the issue. Of course, beyond this there is little known of what Sony’s strategy might be to deal with the problems.

Hackers are insisting that short of a hardware redesign the genie is out of the bottle, so to speak, and it will be pretty much impossible for Sony to effectively create a patch to deal with this issue.

After nearly two years a variant of the GpCode program has again been released, kidnapping victims' data and demanding $120 for its return.

GpCode encrypts a victim's files and then demands payment for the decryption key. The new version dubbed GpCode.AX by security firm Kaspersky overwrites files with the encrypted data, causing total loss of the original data, and uses stronger crypto algorithms -- RSA-1024 and AES-256to scramble the information.

Even if you pay up the chances of getting your data back are very low, Kaspersky, writes in a blog post. The last known revision of the GpCode program came two years ago. At the time, the author claimed that the scheme paid well.

However it is effectively defeated by making frequent backups and train users to restore data if you're ever faced with a ransomeware threat. Kaspersky's said that victims that get a notice that their data has been encrypted should immediately pull the plug on their PC.

He said that turning the computer off may save a significant amount of your valuable data.

Thousands of Facebook users are falling for software which claims to stick a “dislike” button in the social notworking site but instead shoves in malware.

Computer security firm Sophos pointed out that there was no "Dislike" version of the "Like" icon and anyone installing an application pitched as a "Dislike" button that jokingly notifies contacts at the social networking service "now I can dislike all of your dumb posts" is malware.

Once granted permission to access a Facebook user's profile, the application pumps out spam from the account and spreads itself by inviting the person's friends to get the button, according to Sophos.

Facebook appears to be a jolly good target for hackers at the moment. Perhaps it is because it is mostly full of people who don't really care that much about sticking their private data online (Don't you have a Facebook page? sub.ed.)

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Thousands of Facebook users are falling for software which claims to stick a “dislike” button in the social notworking site but instead shoves in malware.Computer security firm Sophos pointed out that there was no "Dislike" version of the "Like" icon and anyone installing an application pitched as a "Dislike" button that jokingly notifies contacts at the social networking service "now I can dislike all of your dumb posts" is malware.Once granted permission to access a Facebook user's profile, the application pumps out spam from the account and spreads itself by inviting the person's friends to get the button, according to Sophos.Facebook appears to be a jolly good target for hackers at the moment. Perhaps it is because it is mostly full of people who don't really care that much about sticking their private data online [don't you have a Facebook page? ed]